Tijuana doesn't realize it's a fake election-year caravan https://t.co/RCsxJNBiqI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 24, 2018
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Monthly Archives: November 2018
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Romney was tough on China & tougher on immigration than expected, but if he'd ever voiced a "scathing critique of globalization" and how it had "ransacked working class fortunes across three decades of neoliberal hegemony" [Hammond's characterization] he'd have won the election https://t.co/DJ2lCrKzOH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 23, 2018
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Mitt Romney's 2012 domestic policy director shifts to "a scathing critique of globalization, open immigration, and the commodization of labor," including the way elites absolve themselves w/ hollow mantra of "maximize growth and redistribute the gains." Another damn must-read https://t.co/ufYX6HmMzV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 23, 2018
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Caravan Migrants Admit They Are Job-Seekers: ‘I Know I’m Not Getting Asylum’ https://t.co/rdUbq5LQ2K
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 23, 2018
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I assume there is an answer to this objection. Just wonder what it is. Maybe it is in @oren_cass 's book. https://t.co/neT53mLD5S
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 23, 2018
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But your alternative seems to be to just let them in, even with tenuous asylum claims. Your own piece shows they respond to greater security (ie in Texas) by going elsewhere. So why not more security in AZ? (Including a wall–that would also stop people from dying in the desert.) https://t.co/0q9oYrgLEd
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 23, 2018
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Another champion of First Step Act who is "justice involved." https://t.co/8KQcHgUaYh I understand that having gone to prison might give you insight. But the righteousness is off-putting. https://t.co/IcHgIx1fTy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 23, 2018
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I take it back. You should never say "Get on the right side of history" whether it's in the kicker or not. https://t.co/x8AT0dxhPe
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 22, 2018
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So does HIllary regret *this*? https://t.co/dybHEQyFf8 Far from getting "a handle" on migration, her 2016 'no deportation' policy went in the other direction. https://t.co/D300i4VYEd
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 22, 2018
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"A Mexican official…said that current Mexican immigration law does not allow those seeking asylum in another country to stay in Mexico." That's Mexico's problem, no? https://t.co/cIGJKmkDUB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 22, 2018
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"Trump plan would force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico as cases are processed, a major break with current policy" https://t.co/cIGJKmkDUB High hopes for this plan.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 22, 2018
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Interesting re:positive statement of Tijuana mayor regarding Haitian migrants who settled in ("they never asked us for food or shelter'). He contrasts them with Central Am caravan. https://t.co/Dnnl1Z9Ytg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 22, 2018
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I run a restaurant. I pay my dishwashers $10/hr. The government offers a $3 subsidy. Am I going to pay them $13/hr, or drop the underlying wage to $9/hr, pay them $12/hr and pocket a buck? How about $8/hr? The worker's still better off! Is he going to complain? Obvious question. https://t.co/X5gmRtIPmo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 22, 2018
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Gentle dissent: "For a wispy little fellow like Jared, of all the things life has given him to be embarrassed about, having to visit his father in prison has to rank pretty high. Surely we can come up with a better way for him to deal with the shame …" https://t.co/TRj4rsrBiK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 22, 2018
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There's no downside to frankly embracing the Kochs as a driving force behind this bill? I would have thought they'd be tarnished on the right by their relentless support for loose borders, and on the left because… well, they're the Kochs. https://t.co/i7kXI7NeFD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 21, 2018
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So Trump's hinterland appeal was not about "economic anxiety"–never!–but it has "deep economic roots," leading to anger at "the sense of being left behind" (ie what some might call economic anxiety) https://t.co/l12nCCNoWf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 21, 2018
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Divergent economic fortunes have produced a “'geography of discontent' that has spawned 'entrenched poverty' in the 'left-behind' areas."
But don't call it "economic anxiety"!
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 21, 2018
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It would be wrong to say that @paulkrugman's answer to non-urban stagnation is
KRUGMAN TO STIX: DROP DEAD.
It's more like
HAVE SOME WAGE SUBSIDIES AND DROP DEAD https://t.co/l12nCCNoWf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 21, 2018
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Income *before* taxes & transfers–ie generated by the market, what people earned–pretty close to stagnant since late 90s for bottom fifth. (See page 2 of CBO Report.) We chose to spend billions in transfers to compensate. But that doesn't mean there isn't an underlying problem. https://t.co/4fIe2M5nKc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 21, 2018
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LEDE, BURIED: "Senior U.S. officials have indicated to Saudi advisers in recent weeks that they would support Prince Ahmed …" https://t.co/Wbpenfx20Z
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 20, 2018
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If his machine is a dud, stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Jersey, how's he going to make that highway run? This has been bothering me.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 20, 2018
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Certainly the most page views a Saturn Aura has ever gotten.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 20, 2018
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I would have thought this cheap shot had already been taken. But no! (as far as I can see.)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 20, 2018
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Of course Jared's idea of a good candidate for rehabilitation is MBS https://t.co/ZUIeUKTbJw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 20, 2018
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That's a whole mess of alarming jargon right there. I *think* you mean if they go to these classes they can get released to halfway houses earlier. https://t.co/CJ6ZDg6gCB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 20, 2018
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